Located about a forty-five minute boat ride away from the port city SihanoukVille, Cambodia in the Bay of Thailand, Koh Takiev is considered as the island of paradise. It is an huge island with numerous beautiful and peaceful beaches. It offers to tourists the great chance to truly escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life and experience the local culture.

In the fine sandy beaches, each side of the rocky headland looks like two bows where you can find golden eagles. These beaches are the pride of the island in which there is also charming additional beach with 360m of amber sand. The south of the centre island has a water body shaded by trees. The south-east beach which faces the sunrise with a clear view of the sea is often called “ivory” relating to the color of its sand. The eastern beach near the jetty and the fishing village, is called “amber”. Thousands of fish swimming beneath the calm sea here, offer the opportunity for those like fishing or diving.

This unspoiled island will soon be domesticated, but you until 2014 visitors have chance to enjoy an untouched tropical paradise. Koh Ta Kiev’s appeal is to create the opportunity for travelers to reconnect with the natural world. Bird hunters can spend their morning trying to scout the island’s 150 known bird species, while those looking for a bit more adventure can spend an afternoon having up-close encounters with the creatures of the sea. Three lovely yellow sand beaches are shaded by pine trees and its coral reefs that make for excellent snorkeling. Take a trekking paths meander through the jungle if you like the adventurous feeling and would like to do a bit of wildlife-spotting. One of the more unique tourist attractions is the Abyss Absinthe Distillery, which takes visitors through the entire absinthe- making process and allows them to taste test some unusual absinthe-based cocktail like chocolate mint absinthe shake and the absinthe island mojito at the bar. Coming here, you will have chance to join in and experience a lot of activities such as scuba diving and snorkeling, jungle treks, exploring the island and waters, fishing and swimming.